Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
@nautilebleu I mean, on Twitter and on Mastodon both it helps to interact with people to be seen. But I've heard of the drop in engagement from other NSFW writers too, it's not just you or me.
@chloetse It could be 😁
I was thinking I'd hash that out if it wins, it could just as well be a group of hunter-gatherers on the trail of a mastodon turning towards each other for comfort or in celebration of their kill. Or it's a love scene where the mastodon is just there, taking a drink at the waterhole. Lots of possibilities.
But I have considered the dinosaur erotica angle too, of course 😂
Yeah, that's about right. #Stripe deactivated my account and sundered my WordPress subscribers because of the ways I describe people making love. #AmWritingErotica
Yet Stripe has no problem supporting a far-right bigot.
@AborigenGTS I know that #Stripe rejects all erotic content in their terms of service. It's very possible they will kick me off too at some point. They are not friendly towards small businesses in general either. But for now it's the only integration for the software I'm using for my website and I'm not a developer who can make their own. I'm already looking for alternatives and I haven't even launched the subscription.
@robyneatseverything Congratulations! I started my own after being booted off the blogging platform I used before because they decided they would no longer allow adult content 🤡
Well, that's just plain stupid: Germany's government will apparently start to manually (!!) post screenshots of their tweets on their website, to circumvent any restrictions on #Twitter's visibility introduced by #ElonMusk.
But they don't have to post there at all. Just leave already. It's not that difficult.
Tweets in Kopie: Bundesregierung umgeht Twitter-Beschränkung mit Screenshots auf eigener Website
Fuck BlueSky, fuck Threads, I wrote a little thing about why I'm hurling all my eggs into Mastodon's basket.
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/mastodon/ Mostly written so I have an excuse to tell people on Twitter to stop DMing/@-ing important stuff to me, because it'll be easier to step away if I'm not constantly worried that my absence will make someone... Mad At Me.
@girlonthenet I too am working on a blog post for Mastodon being the only reasonable choice for adult / NSFW content creators.
Mostly to convince the artists I admire to leave Twitter already.
@girlonthenet I wanna add that I can confirm the shadowban on Twitter 100%. I consider my account fairly tame for an erotica account, when I first joined I would get shadowbanned for tweeting porn but not everyday use. Now I haven't seen tweets from my fellow erotica writers in forever, despite interacting daily in the past. Following them is not enough, as you say. Reach absolutely tanked for me even before Musk.
@RubyJones@Lamhfada@antiquidons@histodons@mythology Did you know I wrote a fanfic featuring Plato's Symposion? 😄
It's a fanfic of The Last Bacchae, a Greek myth comic set in modern times, and the main character is a huge Plato fan 😍
Linda Sejic made an illustration for it!
@SoniaSulaiman I have personally used Patreon, which is most convenient as a fellow creator since I can pay with my own account balance, without the need for currency exchange, Ko-Fi, BuyMeACoffee, and indiegogo.
I am trying to wean off of Patreon, though, and build up my own website, as I don't really trust Patreon not to fuck with NSFW creators longterm. They already did so in the past.
@SoniaSulaiman I don't know if readers expect it but it's probably the most well-known platform. I don't know how good Patreon's discovery features are but for me as a NSFW writer they essentially just collect the money for me since "mature" creators are excluded from any discovery features.